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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-04-29

The Democratic party. had several e.
fective raIlying cries In the last two
Presidential campaigns "Down with
Needless War Taxes Turn the Rstcals
Out" .Open The Books "Iseform the
Civil Servics." stop the Surplus,'
I"Break Up the Rings.' "Curb the Cor.
|porations,' mo PIntocracy' and ''Give
lus Change" were among the service
lable shibb0leths. They made the issu q
upon which the election was carried IN
1854.
y. What ere the cries and what IL the f.
sue to-day? Very few Of the shiD-
lboleths could be repeated without ex-
citing = smile Of der ision among the vo-
tiers. The war taxes are untouched.
The surplus IL increasing aud the outlet
Ifor Il viii soon be closed. II is doubt
Iful II more rascals have been turned :out
than, have managed. to creep In. The
open books have not yet yielded what
many still believe to be in them. Moth
ing has been broken. Congress, forced
10 action by the independent press, has
put the only curb upon corporations.
The money bags have been multiplied In
The Senate. The change has been more
lin name and form than in fact aud sub
stance.
The Democratic. party needs IN Issue
and azrsllying cry for the next cam
|paign. There ere plenty ct hand. IL
there Do'oDe TO sieze upon them.-New
York World.
What announcement have Democrats
10 work st al, while the administration
allows Republicans TO hold the most i'm
portant Offices
\ Ii IL positively stated that "P0stmsster
|Conger. Of Washington, D. c., is IN act
i've, avowed Republican partisan. He
was delegate to the Republican Con-
veniion OF Washington 10 select dele
gates to the Presidential Convention
that nominated Blaine. He was openly
charged with using the patronage al the
post0fice 70 have himself elected - q
delegate to the Naticnal Republican
Conv entiou and succeeded. He has
over and over again in published inter-
views declared himscIf to be . Republi-
can partiaan, and loses no opportunity Of
criticiKiug severely the Adminietrali0n
and the Democratic Congress. Out Of
$50 appointments in bis Office l03 are
not under the Civil Service law. III
there IL one Democrat in the number the
fact II not known 10 the Democrats or
the District. We would like 70 know
v whether the retention Of this man Con-
ger in Office during The Democratic Ad-
ministratien 10 necessary 10 successfully y
carry out the principles Of the Demo-
cratic reform party. --Rcckpcrt Dem.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-04-29

JASPER, INDIANA.
xVOLLEcTONs IN This and adjoining Counties. and
" other legal business attended TO with care and
0FFicE-south side Of ublie ssuavs. over
che P0st0nace.
November 2Gtk 1856.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
A Wonder of Theatrical Mech
anism.

The scenic splendors of the second
act OF "Merlin", Goldmark's new OPP
era, at the Metropolitan opera house,
have never been surpassed in New
York. The scene is laid in the magic
gardens OF Merlin, whittier the demon
has guided Vivien, whose business it is
to prevent the hero from going to the
assistance OF King Arthur; in short,
to bring him within the power of Sa-
tan. The entire act is given up to en-
chantment. The first is the appear
ance of a mysterious and magical veil
which the demon throws into the air
where it remains floating, and aglow
or afire. while sounds of sweet, mys-
FERROUS music are heard from unseen
instruments and singers. Suddenly
clouds descend upon the scene, and
when these disappear the enchanted
garden is occupied by the ballet, rep
ressnting spirits OF water, air and
flowers, finally the spirit OF ocean COM
ing upon the scene drawn in a shell
by dolphins and surrounded by her
It's beautiful scene and
the ballet is the feature of the act,
says the New York World. The re-
suit of all the bewildering charm OF
the ballet is to make Vivien's conquest
of Merlin complete, an event which is
celebrated in a love duet between
the two. Finally the lovers sink up
on messy bank, like Wagner's lovers,
and thereremain until Merlin awakens
to the awful consciousness that he
has sacrificed duty to love. At the
close the scene is suddenly transform
ed into a wilderness.-NewY York Paper.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
sudden Changes of Climate.

1Opular science monthly.
If blizzard ofunusual severity were
coming from the Northwest that would
send the thermometer down so deg.
or 20 deg. in three hours, we should
expect great increase OF pneumonia
or other respiratory diseases, result.
ing in deaths. Now instead of three
hours, suppose the mercury was to
drop 90 deg. in three minutes-or
take another step in fancy. and sup
pose this great change to take place in
three seconds-what would likely be
the effect OF health? And yet we bring
about, artificially, changes to ourselves
quite as sudden and as severe as this.
We make an artificial climate in our
houses. We live indoors in an atmos-
phere heated by stoves, furnaces or
steam-pipes to 20 or so deg,
and we pass from our parlor to hall
SO heated into the open air. At step,
literally in breath, the temperature
OF the air has, for us, dropped 80 to
40 deg We may put on an extra
coat or shawl ard shield the outside
of the body and chest, but we can not
shield the delicate Innings and men,
branes of the air passages, the bron.
chial tubes, the lung cells Naked,
they receive the full force OF the change
the last breath az 20 deg, the next
at freezing or zero-and all unprepar-
ed. We have been sitting perhaps for
hours, in a tropical atmosphere; nay,
worse, in an atmosphere deprived by
hot iron surfaces OF its ozone and
natural refreshing and braclng quail
ties. Our lungs are all relaxed, debili.
tated, unstrung; and in this condition
the cold air strikes them perhaps 80
deg. below what they are gradual
ed to and prepared for. Is
it strange if pneumonia and bronchi-
tbs are at hand? II we are in
the West Indies, or even in Florida,
and wish to come North in winter, we
try to make the change gradual. But
in our houses we keep up tropical
climate, or worse, for we have not the
freshness OF air that prevails
IN an open tropical atmosphere,
and we step at once into an
atmosphere as much colder as 40 de-
grees difference of latitude will make
it. 1t is in effect going from Cuba to
Icelani-or at least to New York-at
step, and we make the journey per-
haps dozen times aday. And often,
while We are still shut up in our domi.
ciliairy Cuban climate, Iceland comes
down upon us from an open window.
Especially is this likely to occur in
school, where children will instructive
ly seek to get a breath of fresh air
that has not had all its natural re-
freshing qualities quite cooked out OF
it by hot stoves, furnaces or steam
pipes. And all these sudden changes
and shocks of cold come upon us
while the whole system has its vitality
and powers OF resistance gauged down
to the low necessities of a tropical
climate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
Life in tho SnnreIae Cnnrt.

The members of the Supreme Court
of the United States. with their imme-
date relatives, are like a great family.
They are companions for life, in the
nature OF the case, and they have al
ways recognized this fact in their so.
cial relations. They are all on init.
rate terms; they share mutual sorrows
..ld joys; they know each others
homes almost as well as their own;
they all take kindly interest in the
puplic and private affairs of each 9TH
er, and they all conspire to maintain
the dignities and the traditions oil
their little circle. When the son OF Mr..
Justice Strong, OF the Supreme Court,
was married by the son OF Mr.. Justice
Harlan, of the Supreme Court, the
grandson OF Justice Grier OF the SUI
preme court being the best man, the
members OF the supreme court and
their families were all present Except
Justice Woods, who is ILL to bless the
marriage and kiss the bride. And so
another addition was welcomed to
the supreme court family. Justice
Gray interests them all very much,
|, lust as he interests everybody, because
hesssi.. -emains bachelor. Chief Jus.
tice White-,uas wife and daugiit err
and several sons, and all the other
members of the court are equally fort
innate in being married, although two
of them have no children. But Justice
Gray spersistently and exasperatingly
single-a regular rosy-cheeked, happy.
faced, big, stout bachelor. He is a
very large-the largest man who
walks on Pennsylvania avenue. He
stoops under most doorways. But
he keeps up his exercise, both mental
and physical, so vigorously that he
looks thinner and trimmer than he is.
He is a terrible worker-he will work
all day at the capitol and work all
night in his well.equipped library, and
then begin the next days work with
zest which none but the perfectly
healthy man can know. He goes
out very little outside of the family
reunions, so to speak, OF the Supreme
Court. He never stays long anywhere
except at a Supreme Court house.
He dashes in, says something light and
sweet, and dashes out again. He is
apt to be triie diiiident with young
women. He knows he is a bachelor.
He insists, too, that h proposes to
continue one, and stoutly denies all
those stories about his being engaged.
He is welded, he says, to his ambi-
ton. We shall see In the old days,
the members of the Supreme Court
dined almost constantly together.
Now they do so once month. They
began at Justice Fields. This was
the first formal introduction of Mrs.
Matthews, the second wife of Mr.. JUS
tice Stanley Matthews, to the Su.
preme Court family. The fact that
she is bride will make her the guest
OF honor at all the dinners the Su.
preme Court family gives this winter
except that which she will give when
her turn comes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
A wair From Italy.

There is a suggestion to American
ladies who wear bird plumage for per
sonal adornment in the following sto.
~ from over tbs sea:
The Marquis Cantino. says an ltal-
ian paper, recently fell in love with a
young English millionaire, Miss Ada
Rutland, and arrangements were made
for the marriage OF the pair on De
cember 10. The day came, theguests
were all gathered, the clergyman was
ready. All at once the bride appear
ed. A thrill of excitement, mingled
with admiration, ran through the
party. The white dress worn by the
lady was seen to be decorated by gar
lands of white doves too numerous to
be counted. The face of the marquis
darkened as he asked: Where did
you get these?"
"oh," was the quick response, 81
hit upon this splendid idea myself
and gave instructions to the farmers
on my English estates months ago to
catch all the doves they could and
send the n to me-" "And you sup
pose, F" coldly said the marquis, chat
can take you to my arms with that
murderer's dress about you? Never!
/ despise youp Thus speaking the
Mortified bridegroom darted from the
room and ok the next train to Paris.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
Counting in Bunk Notes.

he bank note has any number OF
mics. These eonspire to shorten
average life of three years some.
res to less than as many weeks.
dhabits arefatal to il. Ifit starts
on q tour OF the drinking places
dfallsinto low company nechances
"a dozen to one that it will turn
at the redemption agency in lew
US, u ragged aud disreputable vaga-
nd, to be chewed up and made into
piermache frogs, turtles, ETC.. for
per-weights. The bloody fingers OF
butcher and dirty pockets into
ich the bills are stuffed, wadded up
every way, are mot especially friend.
TO the life OF the bill, and fire and
ter claim many of them for their
Tins in a year.
The charred and blackened remains
many Thousand notes appear at
treasury department every month.
~ come in singly, in half-dozens.
sometimes in great packages.
rred through and through. All the
hed bills go into the hands of one
I'D /, lillut1ae comptroller office, whose
duty it is tofdentify them tore they
can be redeemed. If the notes aie
stuck together in a crisp, black mass,
she first separates them, one at a
time, with knife made with the thin
nest possible blade for the purpose.
The remains of each note is then laid
upon glass slab and very closely
scrutinized through magnifying-
glass. The lady is familiar with the
peculiarities of the issue OF
notes by the various banks and it
rarely occurs that some clew to the
identity of the note is not discovered.
Notes which are mutilated 60 to
the redemption agency, which owes
its origin to Gen. Spinner Here
about 100000, 900 notes on an aver
age are handled five times each in a
year, the largest numbers coming in
January and June. An expert can
handle about ten thousand notes in a
day. When the notes are received
they have TO be counted in" The
"eounter-in" mustgo over them twice.
and il any mistake is made or any
counterfeit passed the loss is deduct
ed from the salary of the one making
the error. The counter Is handed q
bunch of from 5000 to 10000 notes,
Tor which receipt is given, and if,
when they are counted back" the
two counts agree, credit is given for
them. Each package bears the name
OF the counter and the amount which
it contains.
When the notes are thus counted
they go to the ''sorters," where those
in good condition are separated from
those that are badly delapidated.
Next they are arranged according to
aud then distributed
into banks OF issue After this they
are grouped INTO denominations, the
head of the bank putting them out,
and are finally counted out" The
"counter-out" must handle the notes
three time. The responsibility OF the
'counter-in" is much greater than
that of the ''counter-out" The
"counter-in" must bear in mind con-
stantly the name OF every bank whose
notes have been counterfeited. The
greater part OF the work in this de-
partment is done by women, and the
degree of experiences displayed is little
short OF marvellous.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
Looking up the Facts.

Mr.. Eggleston gives his readers
good advice in telling them TO look up
the locations of all places OF which
they read, and to test the accuracy
of all statements that involve calcu.
lations. Such a practice tends to cul.
tivate the habit of exactness, and
will give to reading much additional
enjoyment. In his book, 1.-THE Big
Brother" he says
at will not hurt you, boys and girls,
to learn a little accurate geography,
by looking up these places before go
ing on with the story; and if ! were
your school-master, instead OF your
story-teller, | should stop here TO ad-
wise you always to look on the map
for every town, river, lake, mountain,
or other geographical thing mentioned
in any book or paper you read.
81 would advise you, too, II l were
your school-master, to add up all the
figures gwen in books and newspapers,
to see if the writer's have made any
mistakes; and it is a good plan, too,
to 60 at once to the dictionary when
you meet word you do not quite
comprehend, or the encyclopedia or
history, or whatever else is handy,
whenever you read about anything,
and would like to know more aboutit. "
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
A New Sort of Swindle.

Two English adventuresses have
been arrested in Paris, charged with
an original form of swindling. The
prisoners give the names of Mrs. Linsay
aud Miss Eyelyne Rappy. The latter
it beautiful woman and about %
years OF age. Mrs. Linsay is older,
not so comely, and easily passed as
Miss Rappy's mother or guardian. as
occasion required. The women caused
to be published in responsible papers
genteely written and cleverly con-
stracted advertisements making it
known that a young widow with a
million sterling in her own right, or a
rich young girl, who had made false
step,was DESTROYS of forming alliance
with gentleman of the right stamp
who would appreciate the situation
and who has means sufficient to war.
rant that on his side the marriage was
not entirely speculation. Several
Frenchmen were in turn introduced
to Evelyne Rappy as result of these
advertisements, and she was put forth
as the young widow, or the rich
young girl, according to the inclination
OF the sutton. She engaged herself to
a number OF these, managing to keep
alive their ardor until she had
exhausted their ability to make pres
ents, and successfully married several
OF the more wealthy, securing the best
settlement possible and managing to
escape with all the wedding presents
and other personal property obtaina-
BILE within few hours after the cere-
mony. 1t has transpired that Miss
Rappy played this marriage trick with
great financial success on more than
one adventurer in England before she
sought her new victims IN France, and
it is said that all OF her numerous
dupes in both countries have been oil
such high social or political position
that they have been ashamed to seek
redress of any kind When Miss Rap
by was taken into custody she was at
a first-class hotel, living in grand
suite of rooms in a style BETTING a
princess, and was on the point OF be-
ing married TO a manwho had already
paid right royalty for the betrothal,
and had invested a snug fortune in
wedding presents. When Miss Rappy
realized that she was prisoner she
broke down and made q complete
confession, giving the details OF all her
exploits, with mention of dates, sums
and names. She throws all the blame
for her conduct upon Mrs. Linsay,
who she says completely controlled
hor
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
The Queens Jubilee Projects.

From the London Figaro.
1t would be interesting to see tabu-
lated list of all the suggestions which
have been made Tor keeping the
queens jubilee. What may be called
the jubilee year Is already setting in
with considerable intensity, not only
in large cities, but in towns and even
villages, and it is curious to note the
variety OF proposals which have been
put forward, embracing well nigh every
conceivable project, from system OF
complete drainage to a peoples park,
and from an almshouse to public
baths and washhouses. At some en-
terprising towns they are not content
with one or even two projects. At
Bridgewater, for instance, the schemes
include q park, some public baths, a
chain OF office for the mayor and a
statue of Admiral Robert Blake. At
Brighton popular opinion is in favor
of a plan which will transform the
western lawn into a winter garden by
roofing it in at a considerable height
with glass. At another town. will
not in pity mention the name-it is
positively proposed to celebrate the
suspicious occasion by the exceeding
ly prosaic plan OF laying down a
wooden pavement, and | should think
that the mayor and corporation
could not do better than TO follow
Sidney Smiths advice and "put their
heads together" for the purpose.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27

The president pro tenn of the senate
laid before that body joint resolutioRnl
the Idaho legislature protesting in une-
quivocal terms against congress making a
second Poland OF their domain. They
protest against the cutting off OF the pan
handle, because they have lately increased
the debt OF the territory for the erection OF
a penitentiary and insane asylum, for
both which the four counties above men,
toned were largely responsible, and it is
desirable that they should bear their
share OF the expense. They object to the
Nevada scheme as purely political one,
and unworthy the attention OF congress.
Idaho already has experience OF the con-
gressional knife. The original territory
comprised 326, 1923 square miles. and
Montana and Wyoming were constructed
from large and valuable slices of her terri
tory, leaving her present limited area OF
Sc, 900 square miles.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
The WAYS of Russia.

An instance of the way in which the
Russian government manages its af-
fairs, and of the rigor with which 1t re-
presses whatit considers objectionable
displays of public feeling, was shown
short time ago at ST.. Petersburg in
the suppression OF an attempt, on the
part of the students of the university,
to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the death OF the poet Bogolin-
boff. 1t was arranged that this cele-
bration should take place in the Vol
koff cemetery, and at the time agreed
upon some six or seven hundred stu
dents, of whom about one hundred
were young women studying in the
higher medical school, assembled Mt
the gates ofthe cemetery, with wreaths
and mementoes OF one kind or anoth-
err. Possibly, the affair may have had
q political significance; at least, the
government officials chose to put
this Interpretation upon it, and hence
the police ordered the assembly to
dispense. There was some objection
to this, and display of feeling made
which gave the excuse for the arrest
OF forty or fifty of the male students
and eighteen OF the females. The per-
sons thus arrested were in a few cases
released. Those not thus treated were
simply exiled without the least form
OF trial. No one of their friends or
the public has the least idea where
they were sent. Probably they were
scattered and sent to distant country
villages to be kept under strict police
supervision for an indefinite period of
time-that is, years. or perhaps their
lifetime-thus breaking up any plan or
hope for the future which the students
may have formed In an American
university q demonstration of this
kind might have been attended with
reprimand, suspension, or at the
most, an expulsion from the college
One cannot help having some degree of
sympathy for the nihilists, when one
takes into account the many causes
they have for the hatred OF their gov
eminent and their governors.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27
TUFTS Liver Pills
GIVE GOOD DIGESTION.
Quaker Testimony.

Mrs. A. NJ. Dauphin, Philadelphia has
done q great deal to make known to ladies
there the great value Of Mrs. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, as a cure for their
troubles and diseases. She writes as fol-
flows: "A young girl of this city while
bathing some years ago was thrown vio-
lently against the life line and the injuries
received resulted in aa ovarian tumor which
grew and enlarged until death seemed GER
tain. Her physician finally advised her TO
try Mrs. Pinkham's Compound. She did
so and in short time the tumor was dis
solved and she is now in perfect health. I
also know OF many cases whore the medi-
cine has been of great value in preventing
miscarriage and alternating the pains and
dangers Of child birth. Philadelphia ladies
appreciate the worth OF this medicine and
its great value"
Sent by mail in Pill and Lozenge form on
receipt ofprice, 81. Mrs. rinkham. Lynn.
Mass. Also in liquid form, all at Druggists.